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Common Acre Lane, near Littleport, OS 1885

Common Acre, Littleport

History of Common Acre

In Edward Storey’s, The Winter Fens, Jack Kerridge is reported to say:

“They weren’t slow in knocking back a few pints then in the pubs.” I knew that once there were many more pubs in the Fens than there are today and asked about the ‘locals’ in Jack’s vicinity. ‘In Common Acre there were once two pubs, plus a church, a shop and a school with sixty children. That was out world. Now they’re all gone.’

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